Sat - April 19, 2008About ScienceIt was the night of the eclipse, and I was on my
way to pick up Julia. Her shift at Shoppers ended at 10 pm, the very moment of
totality.
Posted at 06:30 PM Read More Mon - April 7, 2008Whatever happened to Anti-Globalisation?I've always been more than a little confused by
the anti-globalisation movement. Peter (aka The Plump and Gadgie)
addresses that perplexity in his post
this morning, while grieving the disappearance of a voice for global
justice.
Posted at 12:02 PM Read More Fri - March 21, 2008An Easter ParableWhile waiting in line to see the movie Expelled,
a film about creationism and intelligent design, biologist and ID critic PZ
Myers was, well, expelled
from the premises. He left
quietly, while his family and friends stayed and watched the movie,
which includes an interview with Myers.
One of those friends was Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, perhaps the world's best known atheist. Posted at 12:53 PM Read More Sat - December 29, 2007On the death of Benazir BhuttoIn today's Wall Street Journal, by Bernard-Henri
Levy:
Posted at 11:08 AM Read More Wed - September 26, 2007Nova Scotia goes pinkThe premier of Nova Scotia, wearing a pink
striped tie, yesterday signed a proclamation,
in pink ink, declaring an annual Stand Up Against Bullying Day. Standing next to
him were the two boys whose protest against homophobia started a campaign
that shows no signs of slowing down.
Posted at 02:09 PM Read More Mon - September 17, 2007Pink is for heroesTwo boys got over 400 of their fellow students to
protest the
homophobic bullying of a grade niner who wore a pink shirt on his
first day of high school.
Posted at 09:16 AM Read More Wed - September 12, 2007Anti-semitism, Islamism and 9/11Classless over at the Popinjays
posted yesterday on a new
book by Matthias Küntzel,
Jew-Hatred and Jihad: The Nazi roots of
the 9/11 attack.
Here are some more quotes from the preview in the Weekly Standard. Despite common misconceptions, Islamism was born not during the 1960s but during the 1930s. Its rise was inspired not by the failure of Nasserism but by the rise of Nazism, and prior to 1951 all its campaigns were directed not against colonialism but against the Jews. It was the Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, that established Islamism as a mass movement. Posted at 02:16 PM Read More Tue - August 28, 2007'The affliction known as adolescence'When Canada adopted the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms back in the 1980s there was some debate about whether the voting age
should be lowered to 14. There was talk about a charter challenge in the courts,
but if it ever happened not much came of it. Today there seems to be a strong
opinion to the contrary – young people can't be trusted to make mature
decisions until around age
30.
Psychologist Robert Epstein has written a book challenging this view. The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen. Even though I think he's got the right idea I'm afraid it's too late to deschool society, and it's schools that are primarily responsible for creating immature adults. Posted at 10:09 AM Read More Wed - July 25, 2007Plan BIf efforts to reduce carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere are unsuccessful, and the world warms beyond our ability to adapt,
there is a backup strategy under discussion. It involves floating a fire hose in
the stratosphere for a rather long time.
Posted at 02:52 PM Read More Thu - June 28, 2007Wed - June 13, 2007Software and CarsWhile Buzz is pointing the finger at trade
restrictions there are other explanations for the failures of the
(former) big three North American auto manufacturers. Here's an observation from
fake
Steve Jobs, in which the ersatz Apple ceo explains why smaller and
simpler is better.
Posted at 03:04 PM Read More Sun - May 27, 2007Ford Test Track RallyWent for a walk this morning, along with 35,000
other citizens of Windsor and Essex County. My group set out from the Chrysler
Minivan Plant and merged with two other streams for a rally at the Ford Test
Track Park. The event was called to show support for local Canadian
manufacturing.
Posted at 05:49 PM Read More Sun - May 6, 2007Excessive PuritanismTo the dismay of many Democrats the former mayor
of Atlanta, UN ambassador and civil rights leader, Andrew Young, has
come out in
support of Paul Wolfowitz, the besieged president of the World Bank
and architect of the Iraq War.
Posted at 10:25 AM Read More Sat - April 21, 2007Irshad ManjiThe Canadian premiere of Faith
Without Fear airs tonight on Global TV, 8 pm in Ontario. It's narrated
by Irshad Manji, Muslim
Refusenik and author of The Trouble with Islam
Today.
Posted at 10:40 AM Read More Fri - April 6, 2007Swindles, Summaries and The Honest BrokerAnother summary
for policy makers was released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. This one was from working group II: Climate Change Impacts,
Adaptation and Vulnerability. They say bad things are about to happen everywhere,
except maybe Canada.
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